Clothes-line reel.



Patented Dec. 25, I900.

H HUEBNER CLOTHES LINE REEL 7 (Application filed June 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES Y PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY HUEBNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLQTHES-LINE REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 664,640, dated December25, 1900.

Application filed June 6. 1900.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY HUEBNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-LineReels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in clothes-linereels, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective deviceof this description upon which aclothes line may he wound when notin useand from which it may be readily withdrawn when desired for use.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details ofconstruction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and thenspecifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilledin the art to which this invention appertainsmay understand how to make and use the same, the construction andoperation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is aperspective of a reel made in accordance with my improvement; Fig. 2, asection thereof; Fig. 3, a perspective showing a slightly-modified formof the revolving member, and Fig. 4 a detail view showing thespring-washer which acts as a brake to retard the rotations of therevolving member.

In carrying out my invention as here enibodied, A represents a spindlewhich is secured within the handle l3, and also secured in this handleis a guide (J, which is composed of a single piece of wire so bent as toform the loop D, the sections of the guide being held in proper relationby the clip E. The securing-pin A, passed through the handle, spindle,and guide-wire, serves to retain the several parts in their relativepositions.

F represents the revolving member or reel,

which is composed of two disks connected together by the hollow metalhub G, and this revolving member is jour'naled upon the spindle A andhas a crank-handle H attached thereto, by means of which it mayberevolved for winding the line upon the reel. A holeI is formed in themetal hub, into which one Serial No. 19.210. No model-l end of the linemay be passed,.and thereby held While being wound upon the reel, and theline is guided by being passed through the loop D on its way to thereel.

A spring-washer J is passed over the end of the spindle and held inplace by the eotterpin K, which causes said washer to bear with someforce against the reel, which will prevent the reel from revolving tooreadily when hauling out the line, as will be readily understood.

In practice when the line is out of use it is wound upon the reel by theperson grasping the handle B with one hand and revolving the member Fwith the other hand through the medium of the crank-handle H, afterwhich the reel and line may be stored or suspended from a suitablehook'or nail until again needed.

- In Fig. 3 the revolving member L, instead of being circular, as abovedescribed in connection with Figs. 1' and 2, is composed of two sidestrips M, connected together by the curved strips N, which are rivetedat O to the first-named strips. The curved strips are connected togetherat their centers by the short member P, and this revolving member isjournaled upon the spindle A in the same manner as the revolving memberF.

llaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful is- In a clothes-line reel, a handle, a spindle secured thereinat one end, a -revolving member journaled upon the spindle, aguideconsisting of a single piece of wire, so bent as to form a loop;said-guido'having its ends seated in the handle, and a looped portionbent HARRY HUEBNER.

Witnesses I MARY E. HAMER, Gno. O. HAZELTON, Jr.

